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Describes how to use APIs and tools to create a CloudKit app.

WWDC 2014: Introducing CloudKit introduces the basic architecture and APIs used to save and fetch records.
WWDC 2014: Advanced CloudKit covers topics such as private data, custom record zones, ensuring data integrity, and effectively modeling your data.
WWDC 2015: CloudKit Tips and Tricks explore some of its lesser-known features and best practices for subscriptions and queries.
WWDC 2016: What's New with CloudKit covers the new sharing APIs that lets you share private data between iCloud users.
WWDC 2016: CloudKit Best Practices best practices from the CloudKit engineering team about how to take advantage of the APIs and push notifications in order to provide your users with the best experience.

The following documents describe web app APIs you can use to access the same data as your native app:

CloudKit JS Reference describes the JavaScript library you can use to access data from a web app.
CloudKit Web Services Reference describes equivalent web services requests that you can use to access data from a web app.

The following documents provide more information about related topics:

Designing for CloudKit in iCloud Design Guide provides an overview of CloudKit.
App Distribution Quick Start teaches you how to provision your app for development and run your app on devices.
App Distribution Guide contains all the provisioning steps including configuring app services and submitting your app to the store.
Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift) introduces you to Xcode and the steps to create a basic iOS app.

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